800:173 01    9:00 MWF    WRT 007          Fall Semester 1999 
                      Probability and Statistics 

********Reasonable accomodations will be made for all students with a qualified
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Text:  Freund, J. E. and B. M. Perles.  Statistics, A First Course. seventh 
edition.  Prentice Hall. 1999. 
Instructor:  Campbell, R. B.  Wright 328.  x-32447   e-mail: campbell
Office hours:  Unless there is excessive demand, office hours will not be 
restricted to specified times.  You may either catch me after class, call me 
on the phone, or leave an e-mail message to find a time that is mutually 
convenient.
There is some support for this course in my webspace 
(http://www.math.uni.edu/~campbell/probstat/). You can get to my
webspace from UNI's home page by going to the College of Natural Sciences home
page, the Mathematics Department home page, the faculty home page, and my home
page.  The material I put on the web is designed to be useful from a text 
browser (e.g., lynx), but there are some graphical enhancements.   

There will be three tests worth 100 points each and a final worth between 100 
and 200 points.  Tentative dates are: 
       
   chapters 1,2,3                                     10 September    100 
   chapters 4,5,6,7,8                                 15 October      100 
   chapters 9,10,11                                   19 November     100 
   chapter  12, comprehensive                         15 December     125? 
(The coverage and dates are tentative.  I reserve the right to omit sections 
of the text and/or provide supplementary material, including material from 
chapters/sections not listed.  In particular, type I and type II error will be 
presented from the perspective of conditional probability.) 

There will also be about 10 quizzes worth 7 points each; the best seven will be 
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THE FIRST QUIZ WILL BE ON August 27.  There will be no make-up quizzes. 

There will be two assignments to create web pages worth 25 points each.  You
will need to use minitab for at least one of the assignments.
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Whether homework will be collected/graded has not yet been determined.
                           
Although this is the seventh edition of this text, it is not perfect.  
I shall try to draw to your attention any inaccuracies I notice.  You 
are invited to draw errata to my attention.  You are also invited to 
correct any mistakes I make in lecture, and mistakes on my web space. 

Those of you who live in the residence halls and wish a more informal 
atmosphere to interact with faculty are reminded of the `take a 
professor to lunch (or breakfast or dinner)' program.  Check with your 
local residence hall desk for details.  

This handout has been prepared using PC-Write.  You should learn to 
use a word processor before you graduate.  (It has been revised using the TPU
texteditor on ICEMAN/COBRA/VIPER.)

Probability and Statistics (800 173) was designed to give you a foundation so 
that you can teach elementary probabilty concepts and statistics including AP 
statistics in High School.  We will not cover all the statistical tests which 
you may want to teach/use in high school.  This course will be very light on 
data collection/experimental design which is a major emphasis of AP statistics.
But this course should provide you with an understanding of the fundamental 
concepts so that you can learn any additional material which you are called upon
to teach. 
 
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